>Isn't it odd that they list applications as "tech products", as things we couldn't live without, but they completely miss software that we can't live without >such as MP3, ZIP, TCP/IP, and instead list ipods, email, chatting software, etc., all of which couldn't exist without the underlying "tech products".
I wouldn't call them software. MP3 is a music format standard. ZIP is a compression standard. TCP/IP is a network protocol standard. Software would be the application that implements the standard. If were looking at standards, how about ASCII, QWERTY, and Postscript.
> Doesn't it make sense to cut the highest paid people?
For the health of the company, absolutely. 1 executive salary equals 100 to 1000 employees. But this has nothing to do with the health of the company, and everything to do with said executives' salaries and bonuses, and that only in the short term.
> Do what you want. But tell it like it is, Those that oppose criminal and illegal activity are not opposing free speech.
So you are fine with obeying any law passed by the corporate owned local and federal governments, no matter how restrictive? That seems to be what you are saying. Time for Jewish ghettos and invading Poland by your reasoning. And whoever modded this up to +5 insightful, I wish to protest with a hearty "fuck you!"
> The things that American conservative Christians are vocal about, say, allowing a > prayer before a high school football game or tweaking a biology textbook, as odious as > they may be to many desiring complete separation of church and state, are in no way > comparable to the gory brutality of Muslim theocracies that exist as we speak.
How about wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afganis, men, women, and children? How about sending their own sons into the military meatgrinder? Are these the same Christians that are so vocally in favor of the so called war against terror? Rhetorical question.
> Shouldn't your DHCP server have a list of its leases?
The poster did not state that the nodes are end user PC's. Ever try using DHCP to assign addresses to your load balanced application servers? Oracle servers? er, DHCP servers?:-)
> Dell did not open this forum to get educated about the freedom of speech. > They wanted people to tell them how they can "improve [their] products and services"
I think that's pretty generous of you. The postings on the web site will never be read by the business folks at Dell. It has no bearing on what they decide to roll out. The site is simply there as a form of cheap advertising, to get consumers interested in their upcoming product.
> The only difference I can think of is that Apple's dev team spends less time on compatibility testing, > because unless you're mucking about with the internals of your operating system, to the end uer, Windows' > driver support is excellent. Given the various firmware and AirPort driver problems Apple's had in the past, > I would call it about a draw.
You never ran NeXTStep on x86 hardware, did you? The real issue is that the hardware venders donate a lot of resources to work with Microsoft to make sure that those drivers work with Windows. Those same venders are loath to donate the same resources to Apple (previously NeXT) to pick up an extra 5% market share for their hardware. So Apple (NeXT) has to use mostly their own resources to get those drivers working well. They cannot support the same variety of hardware even if they wanted.
>>> Look at it this way, if you're going to send an indiscriminate kill-bot into a home to slaughter everything, why not just drop a 5000 lb bomb on the place and be done with it?
>>>>> Where as if everyone had stopped being dicks and gone "screw this, lets just make a great OS" together we could have the most amazing thing ever.
>>> Newsflash: Communism doesn't work in practice. Competition is the biggest motivation for improvement; with only one OS, we'd have all the problems of a monopoly, but worse~
Just because the assholes (those that will always try to take advantage of the good will of others) are the ruling class does not mean that we should abandon our ideals, a society where cooperation is more important than competition. One day we will figure out how to margenalize the assholes, but we will never get there if we don't keep trying.
> An under-evolved hairless ape recently put an infant in the clothes dryer in Sydney because > he thought it would be fun for the child. It may have been for the few seconds before the > 3rd degree burns started developing. This kind of cretin is the reason for this kind of warning.
Call me cynical, but I doubt that this person ever reads warning labels, much less heeds their advice. Face it folks. There are 4+ billion people on the planet. Someone is bound to do something stupid with anything.
>Hello, McFly? Which is better: my having an easily-remembered but difficult-to-guess password that I never write down, or you >forcing me to change my password frequently and then write it down because your policy makes me choose something obscure?
The reason that everyone is forced to change their password every N days is that the people that designed the authorization system have no reasonable way to deauthorize anyone. There needs to be a hardfast rule that when someone leaves the company, or changes positions, accounts are disabled immediately. Since most companies have no way to do this, they fall back to password changing to disabled accounts, oh, a month after the fact.
> If it were backed up with some evidence to suggest > each of those probabilities, then it would be > interesting.
The numbers are used to show that it is *reasonable* to think that there is intelligent life besides us in the galaxy. It's not meant to be any kind of proof.
> Would it really be so bad to have the government run with a more business like > model? The current administration has blown away all hope of a balanced budget, > would it be so bad if the government actually made a profit?
To attract the best candidates, congress has raised the president's salary to $500 billion per year, plus bonuses.
> On behalf of soldiers, sailors, and veterans everywhere: go fuck yourself. I did a much more > technical job with cooler toys and better results than anything you've probably seen in your > cushy civilian job...
Yeah, I'd hire you for a tech job. Sure, that's just the attitude that we like.
Instead of intelligent argument, just lash out, yell and scream, tear off some heads. You sure are a good representative of the military mindset. I think you prove the previous poster's point.
> He actually said that he would not ask Rumsfeld to step down and that Rumsfeld would have the job as long as he wanted it, but nice try though.... knowing damn well that he will be leaving after the election. It's still a lie. Nice try though. Actually, no, pretty poor try.
>The gains they made were from moderate Democrats, not the raving liberals who seem to have directed the party for a while now.
I'm really tired of this "raving liberal" crap. The Democrats haven't been liberal, much less "raving liberal," since the Carter years. Liberal is legalizing pot, birth control for all high school students, free health care (like most of the industrial world), an enforced 40 or less hour work week, outlawing all handguns, legalized nude beaches. These are all things that seem to work fine in other countries. "Raving liberal" is setting up communes, cutting the military by 90%, required yoga meditation in school. Things of questionable value, but might be worth trying. The current crop of democrats are not very liberal. I pray that we start to move back in that direction.
> Oracle did a very poor job cloning Fedora. And I really doubt that they have > enought in-house knowledge to mantain a full fledged Linux distro.
Oracle is a $30b company with $10b/year profits. This is not mySql were talking about here. Apple hired the braintrust of BSD to head their OSX support. Oracle can easily afford to do the same for Linux. Is it a business objective? Well, that I can't answer.
> Protected Mode IE uses what they call a "service broker" while simultaneously running IE as a user with > virtually no rights. Protected Mode IE doesn't even have the right to save a file to the user's desktop. > The service broker handles all actions that would normally require those higher privileges. If IE needs > to save a file to the user's desktop it "asks" the service broker to ask the user if that's OK....
So it takes away or makes difficult all the features that any business user has become accustomed to using. That means no one is ever going to run in protected mode. Sounds like a useless kludge to me. Although a lot easier to implement than to actually address the problems.
> Operating System vendors have no incentive, no matter who they are, to make their products available on other platforms.
I can't let this go unchallenged. A ton of examples to the contrary: Quicktime Player for Windows, iTunes for Windows, Office for Macintosh, Sun Java for all platforms, Windows Media Player for Macintosh.
It depends on the app, and the business need to port it to other platforms. In theory all browsers render all web pages the same because everyone uses the same open standards. Well, we all know that is a crock, but that's the theory anyway.
> I had this same problem, the doctors were going the medication route...
That's the crux of the problem. I have an excellent psychiatrist who will not prescribe medication unless you are in active psychotherapy with her. After four years, I am at a point where my anxiety is practically cured as long as I stay on my medication, so I only see her a few times a year now. She is actively involved with all of her patients. The problem out there with too many doctors is that they are, what she calls, "Pill-pushers." These are doctors who see you for 10 minutes, and prescribe medication based on a snap judgement of your problems. Done, next patient.
My suggestion to everyone with depression, anxiety, or especially psychotic issues is to drop your doctor if you are not getting the treatment you need, and keep trying until you find a good one who actually cares. They may be hard to find, but they are out there. The major problem for most people is that such doctors are usually in private practice, and charge an arm and a leg. Bet, borrow, or, um, you know, the money. You will not regret it when you have your happiness back.
One final note, you are not hiring the doctor to "cure you." You can only do that yourself. What the doctor can do is help you find the path you need to follow to get there. You may also find that you do not need medication, or that you can get along with a lesser dose. Unless you are suffering from psychosis, in which case, TAKE YOUR MEDS!:-)
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>Isn't it odd that they list applications as "tech products", as things we couldn't live without, but they completely miss software that we can't live without
>such as MP3, ZIP, TCP/IP, and instead list ipods, email, chatting software, etc., all of which couldn't exist without the underlying "tech products".
I wouldn't call them software. MP3 is a music format standard. ZIP is a compression standard. TCP/IP is a network protocol standard. Software would be the application that implements the standard. If were looking at standards, how about ASCII, QWERTY, and Postscript.
jfs
> Doesn't it make sense to cut the highest paid people?
For the health of the company, absolutely. 1 executive salary equals 100 to 1000 employees. But this has nothing to do with the health of the company, and everything to do with said executives' salaries and bonuses, and that only in the short term.
jfs
> Just how did these baby polar bears, kola bears, blind cave fish and blind mole rats make the oceanic journey and arrive in the Middle East.
n y-of-ducks.html
And don't forget about the ducks. http://fourdinnersblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/tyran
> Do what you want. But tell it like it is, Those that oppose criminal and illegal activity are not opposing free speech.
So you are fine with obeying any law passed by the corporate owned local and federal governments, no matter how restrictive? That seems to be what you are saying. Time for Jewish ghettos and invading Poland by your reasoning. And whoever modded this up to +5 insightful, I wish to protest with a hearty "fuck you!"
jfs
> The things that American conservative Christians are vocal about, say, allowing a
> prayer before a high school football game or tweaking a biology textbook, as odious as
> they may be to many desiring complete separation of church and state, are in no way
> comparable to the gory brutality of Muslim theocracies that exist as we speak.
How about wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afganis, men, women, and children? How about sending their own sons into the military meatgrinder? Are these the same Christians that are so vocally in favor of the so called war against terror? Rhetorical question.
jfs
> Shouldn't your DHCP server have a list of its leases?
:-)
The poster did not state that the nodes are end user PC's. Ever try using DHCP to assign addresses to your load balanced application servers? Oracle servers? er, DHCP servers?
jfs
> Dell did not open this forum to get educated about the freedom of speech.
> They wanted people to tell them how they can "improve [their] products and services"
I think that's pretty generous of you. The postings on the web site will never be read by the business folks at Dell. It has no bearing on what they decide to roll out. The site is simply there as a form of cheap advertising, to get consumers interested in their upcoming product.
jfs
> The only difference I can think of is that Apple's dev team spends less time on compatibility testing,
> because unless you're mucking about with the internals of your operating system, to the end uer, Windows'
> driver support is excellent. Given the various firmware and AirPort driver problems Apple's had in the past,
> I would call it about a draw.
You never ran NeXTStep on x86 hardware, did you? The real issue is that the hardware venders donate a lot of resources to work with Microsoft to make sure that those drivers work with Windows. Those same venders are loath to donate the same resources to Apple (previously NeXT) to pick up an extra 5% market share for their hardware. So Apple (NeXT) has to use mostly their own resources to get those drivers working well. They cannot support the same variety of hardware even if they wanted.
jfs
>>> Look at it this way, if you're going to send an indiscriminate kill-bot into a home to slaughter everything, why not just drop a 5000 lb bomb on the place and be done with it?
Too young to remember the Neutron bomb then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_The_Poor
>>>>> Where as if everyone had stopped being dicks and gone "screw this, lets just make a great OS" together we could have the most amazing thing ever.
>>> Newsflash: Communism doesn't work in practice. Competition is the biggest motivation for improvement; with only one OS, we'd have all the problems of a monopoly, but worse~
Just because the assholes (those that will always try to take advantage of the good will of others) are the ruling class does not mean that we should abandon our ideals, a society where cooperation is more important than competition. One day we will figure out how to margenalize the assholes, but we will never get there if we don't keep trying.
jfs
> An under-evolved hairless ape recently put an infant in the clothes dryer in Sydney because
> he thought it would be fun for the child. It may have been for the few seconds before the
> 3rd degree burns started developing. This kind of cretin is the reason for this kind of warning.
Call me cynical, but I doubt that this person ever reads warning labels, much less heeds their
advice. Face it folks. There are 4+ billion people on the planet. Someone is bound to do
something stupid with anything.
jfs
> More importantly, it doesn't tell you if the 30% of "insiders" who launch attacks that have arrest records...
Drunk driving? Not paying alimony? Possession of pot?
jfs
>Hello, McFly? Which is better: my having an easily-remembered but difficult-to-guess password that I never write down, or you
>forcing me to change my password frequently and then write it down because your policy makes me choose something obscure?
The reason that everyone is forced to change their password every N days is that the people that designed the authorization system have no reasonable way to deauthorize anyone. There needs to be a hardfast rule that when someone leaves the company, or changes positions, accounts are disabled immediately. Since most companies have no way to do this, they fall back to password changing to disabled accounts, oh, a month after the fact.
jfs
> If it were backed up with some evidence to suggest
> each of those probabilities, then it would be
> interesting.
The numbers are used to show that it is *reasonable* to think that there is intelligent life besides us in the galaxy. It's not meant to be any kind of proof.
jfs
> Would it really be so bad to have the government run with a more business like
> model? The current administration has blown away all hope of a balanced budget,
> would it be so bad if the government actually made a profit?
To attract the best candidates, congress has raised the president's salary to $500 billion per year, plus bonuses.
No thank you.
jfs
> On behalf of soldiers, sailors, and veterans everywhere: go fuck yourself. I did a much more
> technical job with cooler toys and better results than anything you've probably seen in your
> cushy civilian job...
Yeah, I'd hire you for a tech job. Sure, that's just the attitude that we like.
Instead of intelligent argument, just lash out, yell and scream, tear off some heads. You sure are a good representative of the military mindset. I think you prove the previous poster's point.
jfs
> He actually said that he would not ask Rumsfeld to step down and that Rumsfeld would have the job as long as he wanted it, but nice try though. ... knowing damn well that he will be leaving after the election. It's still a lie. Nice try though. Actually, no, pretty poor try.
jfs
> It's more likely that he left because Bush recognized that the way the Iraq war was going was the major reason that his party lost the House...
Do you actually think that GW makes ANY decisions on his own? I assume by "Bush" that you mean the big business controlled Republican machine.
jfs
> Stop refering to Unix/Linux users as geeks.
:-)
And that includes us OSX folks, running a derivation of FreeBSD Unix. I thought we were the art freaks?
jfs
>The gains they made were from moderate Democrats, not the raving liberals who seem to have directed the party for a while now.
I'm really tired of this "raving liberal" crap. The Democrats haven't been liberal, much less "raving liberal," since the Carter years. Liberal is legalizing pot, birth control for all high school students, free health care (like most of the industrial world), an enforced 40 or less hour work week, outlawing all handguns, legalized nude beaches. These are all things that seem to work fine in other countries. "Raving liberal" is setting up communes, cutting the military by 90%, required yoga meditation in school. Things of questionable value, but might be worth trying. The current crop of democrats are not very liberal. I pray that we start to move back in that direction.
jfs
> Oracle did a very poor job cloning Fedora. And I really doubt that they have
> enought in-house knowledge to mantain a full fledged Linux distro.
Oracle is a $30b company with $10b/year profits. This is not mySql were talking about here. Apple hired the braintrust of BSD to head their OSX support. Oracle can easily afford to do the same for Linux. Is it a business objective? Well, that I can't answer.
jfs
> Protected Mode IE uses what they call a "service broker" while simultaneously running IE as a user with
> virtually no rights. Protected Mode IE doesn't even have the right to save a file to the user's desktop.
> The service broker handles all actions that would normally require those higher privileges. If IE needs
> to save a file to the user's desktop it "asks" the service broker to ask the user if that's OK....
So it takes away or makes difficult all the features that any business user has become accustomed to using. That means no one is ever going to run in protected mode. Sounds like a useless kludge to me. Although a lot easier to implement than to actually address the problems.
jfs
> Operating System vendors have no incentive, no matter who they are, to make their products available on other platforms.
I can't let this go unchallenged. A ton of examples to the contrary: Quicktime Player for Windows, iTunes for Windows, Office for Macintosh, Sun Java for all platforms, Windows Media Player for Macintosh.
It depends on the app, and the business need to port it to other platforms. In theory all browsers render all web pages the same because everyone uses the same open standards. Well, we all know that is a crock, but that's the theory anyway.
jfs
> I had this same problem, the doctors were going the medication route...
:-)
That's the crux of the problem. I have an excellent psychiatrist who will not prescribe medication unless you are in active psychotherapy with her. After four years, I am at a point where my anxiety is practically cured as long as I stay on my medication, so I only see her a few times a year now. She is actively involved with all of her patients. The problem out there with too many doctors is that they are, what she calls, "Pill-pushers." These are doctors who see you for 10 minutes, and prescribe medication based on a snap judgement of your problems. Done, next patient.
My suggestion to everyone with depression, anxiety, or especially psychotic issues is to drop your doctor if you are not getting the treatment you need, and keep trying until you find a good one who actually cares. They may be hard to find, but they are out there. The major problem for most people is that such doctors are usually in private practice, and charge an arm and a leg. Bet, borrow, or, um, you know, the money. You will not regret it when you have your happiness back.
One final note, you are not hiring the doctor to "cure you." You can only do that yourself. What the doctor can do is help you find the path you need to follow to get there. You may also find that you do not need medication, or that you can get along with a lesser dose. Unless you are suffering from psychosis, in which case, TAKE YOUR MEDS!
jfs
> Every element heavier than helium was created primarily either in the core of a star (up to iron), during a nova (almost everything else)
Super Nova, NOT Nova. They are two completely different beasts.
jfs